AMD EPYC Genoa with 96 Zen 4 Cores is an Insanely Fast Chip, Crushes All Other x86 Processors in Leaked Benchmarks

The latest upcoming AMD benchmarks EPYC Genoa 96 core CPU based on the core Zen 4 architecture have been leaked by Yuuki_AnS. Leaked benchmarks show record x86 performance and this comes from an engineering sample.

AMD’s EPYC Genoa 96 Core “Zen 4” CPU crushes all x86 processors on the market

The leaked AMD EPYC Genoa 9000 chip is one of many Zen 4 server CPUs that Team Red will launch later this year for the server market. Us recently covered the specifications for the entire line from the same source and now, Yuuki_AnS has released the first benchmarks showing monstrous performance for the engineering sample.

The specific AMD EPYC Genoa CPU OPN code and SKU name have not been mentioned, but we assume it could be the EPYC 9654P, which is one of the SKUs that features the same specs, which includes 96 cores and 192 threads based on ​on the Zen 4 core architecture. The chip has 384 MB of L3 cache and is rated at a base frequency of 2.15 GHz. Boost frequencies are rated at 3.05 GHz for all cores, single core frequencies of 3.5-3.7 GHz and a low-use operating frequency of 3.5 GHz. At full load, the chip consumes 360 Watts of power, which is a very reasonable figure given that Intel chips have a maximum power limit of more than 700W. .

AMD EPYC 9000 Genoa CPU SKU ‘Preliminary’ Specifications:

AMD’s EPYC Genoa 96 Core ES CPU was tested in a dual-socket configuration, so it has 192 cores and 384 threads in total. However, existing benchmarks don’t support more than 128 cores, as the leaker mentions, and performance was measured on Windows Server 2025 preview, so we’re looking at a very poorly optimized test ecosystem. It is claimed that the performance gap between the ES part tested here and the final version will be huge, so we can expect even higher performance on retail chips.

AMD EPYC Genoa 96 Core and Intel Sapphire Rapids-SP CPU Benchmarks (Image Credits: Yuuki_AnS):

Shared performance metrics are found within various versions of CPU-z, V-Ray, and the very popular Cinebench benchmarks. In CPU-z v17, the AMD EPYC Genoa 96 Core CPU scored 740.2 points on the single-threaded benchmark and 73057.5 points on the multi-threaded benchmark. In AVX-512 CPU-z, the chip scored 627.2 points in single-core tests and 15625.1 points in multi-core tests. For comparison, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX with 64 Zen 2 cores has a multi-threaded performance of 30,917 points, which is a 2.36x improvement in multi-threaded performance. In leaked benchmark results comparing the chip to unpublished offerings from Sapphire Rapids-SPthe CPU lags behind in single-threaded benchmarks, but outperforms its rival in multi-threaded workloads.

In V-Ray, the chip scored 88,300 points in the multicore benchmark. For comparison, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX benchmarks show a performance rating of 60,111 points for the 64 Core Zen 3 chip. This is a 47% improvement which is huge, but keep in mind this isn’t even it is the final form of the 96-core Genoa flagship. In leaked benchmarks, the chip offers a 4.5% CPU performance improvement over its predecessor, the EPYC 7773X, which was expected due to the low clock speeds the ES chip operated at.

Lastly, we have the Cinebench performance benchmarks that were tested on all three versions (R15, R20, R23). In Cinebench R15, the chip scored 188 points in single core and 11,577 points in multicore. In Cinebench R20, the chip scored 416 points in single-core and 26,285 points in multi-core, while in Cinebench R23, the chip scored 1,227 points in single-core tests and 100,776 points in multi-core tests. Here the CPU destroys Intel’s offerings, but note that only 128 cores are used in all three versions and also at a lower clock rate, which is a far cry from their final all-core boost of 3, 05GHz

AMD’s EPYC Genoa CPUs will feature 128 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes, 160 for a 2P (dual socket) configuration. The SP5 platform will also feature DDR5-5200 memory support, which is a tremendous improvement over existing DDR4-3200 MHz DIMMs. But that’s not all, it will also support up to 12 channels of DDR5 memory and 2 DIMMs per channel, allowing up to 3TB of system memory using 128GB modules. The AMD EPYC 9000 Genoa CPU lineup is expected to launch in the second half of this year.

Size comparisons between AMD EPYC Milan Zen 3 and EPYC Genoa Zen 4: